I am trying to add a windows xp computer to my network. I have a peer to peer network with 2 computers running windows 98 and windows me. Each computer has a network card and are attached to a hub. A cable modem is plugged into the hub. Each computer has an IP assigned by ATT. I have TCIP and IPX/SPX installed. I only have file sharing bound to IPX/SPX. Everything between these computers is fine. They can independently connect to the internet and can share files and printers. When I tried to connect an xp computer the same way, all I can manage to get is to have the windows 98 computer 'see' xp on the network, but can't share files. The xp computer is able to connect independently to the net, so I know the NIC is working. To the best of my knowledge, the xp computer is configured the same way as the other two. Any tips would be appreciated.

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On Sunday, April 28, 2002 at 1:24 pm, BJ wrote:
>I am trying to add a windows xp computer to my network.
>I have a peer to peer network with 2 computers running
>windows 98 and windows me. Each computer has a network card
>and are attached to a hub. A cable modem is plugged into the hub.
>Each computer has an IP assigned by ATT. I have TCIP and IPX/SPX
>installed. I only have file sharing bound to IPX/SPX.
>Everything between these computers is fine. They can independently
>connect to the internet and can share files and printers. When I
>tried to connect an xp computer the same way, all I can manage to get
>is to have the windows 98 computer 'see' xp on the network, but can't
>share files. The xp computer is able to connect independently to the
>net, so I know the NIC is working. To the best of my knowledge, the xp
>computer is configured the same way as the other two. Any tips would
>be appreciated.
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Sory about that..when i went to preview the message, the computer must have erased my message. Grrs.. Yet another annoyance on a day of annoyances! Well onto my post... I am having a similar problem with trying to add a windows xp computer to a windows 98 peer to peer network. I have some compuetrs on static ips and one that uses the NetBeui protocol to share files. It does not have a static ip and getting one is not an option. I have tried all of the Microsoft suggested fixes but none of them have solved the problem. Not enabling NetBios over TCIP.., not enabling the Guest account... not giving the other computer's user a user account and a password on the XP computer.. Not even.. adding NetBeui to the XP computer (found the way to do that on a webpage).. So if anyone can help.please do so... As this point I am very annoyed with windows XP.


On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 6:14 pm, Tenna Anderson wrote:
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Okay -- it's a long ways back from this question being asked, but here's half the solution: WindowsXP is always in a domain, regardless of whether you have it set to a Workgroup or not. Thus, to connect to the XP system from the others, you must supply the logon domain. For example, if your computer name is "xp1" and the user is "bob" you would pass the username of "xp1\bob" and bob's password. The other direction is what I'm having problems with, though....


On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 7:27 pm, Tenna Anderson wrote:
>Sory about that..when i went to preview the message, the computer must have erased
>my message. Grrs.. Yet another annoyance on a day of annoyances!
>
>Well onto my post... I am having a similar problem with trying to add a windows xp
>computer to a windows 98 peer to peer network. I have some compuetrs on static ips
>and one that uses the NetBeui protocol to share files. It does not have a static
>ip and getting one is not an option. I have tried all of the Microsoft suggested
>fixes but none of them have solved the problem. Not enabling NetBios over TCIP..,
>not enabling the Guest account... not giving the other computer's user a user account
>and a password on the XP computer.. Not even.. adding NetBeui to the XP computer
>(found the way to do that on a webpage).. So if anyone can help.please do so...
>
>As this point I am very annoyed with windows XP.
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I had finally figured out how to connect all my computers. To date, I do not know which of the "fixes" did the trick. I took the following steps. First I deleted everything I had done to date. Then I reinstalled NetBeui by copying the files over from the XP disk for the manual installation. Then I redid all of the ip addresses on the XP computer. I then installed TCP/ICP on the windows 98 computer but did NOT assign a static ip address. (Remember all my other computers had a static ip address and TCP/IP installed already including the XP computer. I then rebooted the win 98 computer and logged onto the network using the SAME user name as the XP computer I logged onto. (I doubt you have to do this.) Then I rebooted the XP computer, went to network places and voila.. there was my missing win 98 computer!! To test, I shared the drive on the XP computer and could see files FROM the win 98 computer. And I could see files on the win 98 computer FROM the XP computer. Just out of curiousity, I checked the ip address section on win 98 computer and mystically, there was an ip address in there that I had NOT given it, nor was it one of our static ip addresses. I've come to the conclusion that only Computer Gurus will ever know the why's and whatfores of what happened. But I am happy that it works now. Some very nice people wrote to me privately to help me with the problem and I am very grateful for their help. Thanks to all :) Tenna


On Sunday, October 13, 2002 at 10:24 pm, Tom wrote:
>Okay -- it's a long ways back from this question being asked, but here's half the
>solution:
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>WindowsXP is always in a domain, regardless of whether you have it set to a Workgroup
>or not. Thus, to connect to the XP system from the others, you must supply the logon
>domain. For example, if your computer name is "xp1" and the user is "bob" you would
>pass the username of "xp1\bob" and bob's password. The other direction is what I'm
>having problems with, though....
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>

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i had left my computer working but monday morning loaded the computer and told a file was missing or corrupt. reinstalled Xp and immediately lost connectivity with the other computers in the network. have configured tcp/ip but not been successsful where am i going wrong? its a network of 5 computers sharing files and printer in accounts department.

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